Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews

Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of his reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific worlds and share the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521121159
• ISBN13: 9780521121156
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 588 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"